The tension over whether to adopt a child welfare or law-and-order approach is proving to be an increasingly complex moral and policy dilemma for governments across Australia. This ideological debate is unfolding in real time in towns plagued by rampant crime. For policymakers, the pressure is ...
Crime rates, male youth unemployment and real income in Australia: evidence from Granger causality tests. Applied Economics, 36, 2079-2095.Narayan, Paresh Kumar and Russell Smyth. 2004. "Crime Rates, Male Youth Unemployment and Real Income in Australia: Evidence from Granger Causality Tests." ...
Charlesworth said youth crime rates – including those involving Indigenous youth – have been declining the past 20 years, but Indigenous youth are still over-represented. In 1997-98, there was an average of 93 Indigenous youth in custody each day, but in the last year it ha...
to contribute to society, young people may not contemplate their health, learning or engagement in work, so building their self-worth may be a stepping-stone to such outcomes (e.g., mental health, engagement in work and education, desistance from crime and substance misuse) (Sandu, 2020a)....
been driven by the desire to prevent binge drinking and the crime and anti-social behaviour associated with it, and to deter underage drinking. This arises in part from the growing understanding of the potential and specific damages of alcohol to young people [49], as well as the perceived ...
Move to Northern Territory, Australia with Confirmed Job in Hand – Global Recruitment Drive to India and Philippines When the truth is replaced by silence, that silence is a lie” -Sasikumar Is the Kitchen the heart of a home? ‘Parukutty Neithyaramma, a visionary ‘ Sesham Mikeil Fat...
Baetz, C. L., Surko, M., Moaveni, M., McNair, F., Bart, A., Workman, S., & Horwitz, S. M. (2021). Impact of a trauma-informed intervention for youth and staff on rates of violence in juvenile detention settings.Journal of Interpersonal Violence,36(17–18), NP9464.https://...
U.S., it does not provide any information at a national level about who might be at risk of homelessness. One other study using a quasi-qualitative methodology with 41 young people experiencing homelessness in Australia identified trajectories combining five potential pathways into youth homeless...
“We cannot arrest our way out of this,” she wrote. “Alcohol and substance abuse is a symptom as well as one of the drivers and it is not the only one … It is no accident that we are seeing youth crime escalating as rates of Aboriginal and Torres St...
reinforced a pressure to assimilate to the colonial systems—the same systems that continue to silence their voices (see, for example,https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/14/australia-rejects-proposal-to-recognise-aboriginal-people-in-constitution, accessed on 30 October 2023) [27]...